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NITED STATES PATENT' Orrick.

WILLIAM PRICE, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

IMPROVED MANGLE.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM PR1cE,of the city of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton, State of Ohio, have invented new and useful improvements in a maugle or machine for smoothing and pressing linen-such as sheets, pillow-eases, table-cloths, towels, 85e.; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l represents a side view of the machine when closed up, the working parts bein g protected from the dust. Fig. 2 shows an end View of the mangle or machine spread open for use, and .closed up in red lines.

The object of my invention is to supply the community with a portable, convenient, and efficient mangle or implement for smoothing bed and table linen, and for such other articles to which it is adapted that require washing a-nd ironing frequently when in use.

My invention consists in incasing the working parts of a clothes-mangle with a metallic case, the saine forming the supports for a table or apron to guide the articles on a plane between the pressure-rollers when open for use, and close up to keep all of the working parts clear and free from dust when not in use.

My invention further consists in the combination of the several parts forming the device for adjusting the pressure-rollers hereinafter described.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my improved mangle or smoothing` implement, I will describe it more fully, referring to the drawings and to the letters marked thereon.

The frames A A may be made of metal, east from one pattern, both ends being alike, they being connected together by rods of round iron a, a of such length as to give any desired distance between the frames for the length of the pressing ormaugling rollers B B'. The legs ofthe frames b bare spread widely apart, so as to give the machine a broad base for sta-nding` iirmly upon a table to be operated. Just above the legs b b of the frames, ou both sides of the rollers, are hinged arms C C, which are made to serve the purpose of ends for the cover or case D D to close up and incase the presser-rollers B B of the mangle when not in use., The

arms C C also serve the purpose of bearings for the journals of the rollers d d, which, when spread out for use, tighten the endless apron E by their weight, and keep it stretched out smooth and even, so that the apron forms an efficient, suitable, and yielding table on to spread or fold up the fabrics to be pressed and feeds them in between the mangle-rollers B B', and carries them through in a direct line on the plane between the rollers, so that they in ay be passed alternately back and forth a number of times, if desired, without handling. rIhe movable apron E, which forms the table or support for the fabrics as they are being smoothed by the rollers B B may be made of vulcanized india-rubber cloth, and when it is of considerable substance, or the top roller covered with elastic rubber, shirts and other garments having buttons on may be passed through and nicely smoothed without injury or breaking the buttons. The mangle-rollers may be made of metal turned oftl smooth. They may be made hollow and heated by putting in ignited coals, and thus iron as smoothly as can be done by the old process of sad-irons. Bed and table linen are better prepared for use with an etlicient mangle or caleuderrollers than by the old slow, laborious, and heating process of ironing. rlhe top roller,'B,turns in fixed bearings in the upright frames A A, and is driven in the right direction by the crank F, to which is attached a pinion, e, meshing into a gear-wheel, j', on the end of the top rollershaft. The under roller `journals rest in movable boxes Il, which are supported on spiral springs m m, they resting on platesockets lo lc, into which set-screws l l are litted, so that the tension of the spring and pressure of the rollers are easily adjusted.

IIavin g thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Incasing the working parts of a maugle, the case being so constructed and hinged as to let down and form the support for guiding the articles in a line between the pressingrollers, and fold up and close together so as to protect the workin g parts when not in use, substantially as herein specified.

WILLIAM PRICE.

XVitnesses:

JN0. S. HoLLiNGsnEAD, JOHN D. BLooR. 

